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The Cocktail Of The Week is: Mor-Esk
Invigorating, Anise and Palatable.
Urban myth surrounds the mystical effects of Absinthe on the body and mind. One critic very well summarised the people’s minds of the late 1800’s: “Absinthe makes you crazy and criminal, provokes epilepsy and tuberculosis and has killed thousands of French people. It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman and a degenerate of the infant. It disorganises and ruins the family and menaces the future of the country.” Those legends spurred by the prohibitionist ‘Temperance Movement’ and the ‘Winemakers Associations’ pushed governments all around the world to ban Absinthe in the early 1900’s.
30 years later, It’s because of these oppressions that a twenty-three-year-old Frenchman named Paul Ricard created an anise-based aperitif under his own name to replace the banned absinthe of the 1900’s. Pastis was born. Like Absinthe, coming from the traditional Mediterranean Anise drinks such as Italian “Sambuca”, Greek “Ouzo” or the Turkish “Raki”, anise is the main flavour in Pastis' recipe. The name came from Occitan “Pastís” which means “mash-up”. The success of the liqueur was immediate but after the German victory in France and the creation of the collaborationist regime ‘Vichy France’, the product was banned for being “contrary to the values [of the French puppet government]." During WWII, the French Resistance did not have access to petrol and needed an alternative. Paul Ricard, a supporter the Resistance, retreated to the Camargue region and used his distiller skills to create an alcoholic substitute for gasoline for these freedom fighters.
The cocktail of this week is made of Pastis and orgeat, what we call a ‘Mauresque’ in France. HSE black sheriff Rum shook with Ricard Pastis, orgeat, fresh mint, peach Bitters and topped up with Indian tonic. Close your eyes when you sip this refreshing flavoursome drink and you will be transported to the terrace of a French café, next to a ‘pétanque’ pitch where cicadas are singing.
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Sited outside the State Library of Victoria, the pyramidal, Port Fairy bluestone sculpture represents a fragment of the library emerging from the pavement as an archaeological artefact might. It has been conceived to engage with its environment, visually connecting to its surroundings through both form and material.
Spronk's intention was to create a dialogue of sorts between art, history and place. His inspiration was Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem 'Ozymandias', which speaks of the fragile and transient nature of all that is human. Quoting from the poem, the pedestal reads: 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my work you Mighty, and despair.' Architectural Fragment is a Pythagorean triangle, which expresses a strong association with the geometry of ancient Greece. Like a fallen classical monument, it reflects the past and alludes to the transience of the present..
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